Jung's Red Book at UCLA's Hammer Museum until June 6, 2010
by Gregg Chadwick "L.A. is a city where people come to find themselves and explore new ways of thinking and being. They have a longing for an understanding of soul, and find themselves drawn to Jung." -Nancy Furlotti, (co-president of the Philemon Foundation which financed the the translation of The Red Book ) At the Hammer Museum until June 6th is the exhibition The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology . On display for the first time on the west coast is psychologist Carl Jung’s (1875-1961) Red Book . Many scholars consider Jung's Red Book the most influential unpublished work in psychology. The Hammer Museum explains that "Jung also considered the Red Book to be his most important work, or as Jung described it, the " prima materia for a lifetime’s work ." Jung's massive illuminated volume has spent most of its existence in a Swiss safe deposit box. Only a select group has ever been allowed to view Jung's Red Book . T...